After eight weeks at home, my daughter alternated between lethargy and irritability. Between sleeping and meltdowns, explosions of preadolescent rage that leveled the living room, kitchen, and shared bedroom of ...
It’s the kind of intimacy usually shared by people who are fucking. Not mother and daughter. That thought made her smile when she decided to make this garden their place: ...
My brother and I are surgeons. We spend our days in the woods by our home, slicing the limbs from eighty-year-old relics, listening to the sounds of splitting wood and ...
The pearls had already seen much catastrophe. They were happy in the Jesus Loves Me pawn shop, reclining on navy velvet. Serene. No pressure to perform. Their previous owner navigated ...
It starts with a girl— like you and me she walked these streets once. Right here, among fallen leaves and twisted roots, she found him. She held the owl orphan ...
The Bat was the guest of honor at The New Yorker literary festival that year.
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The sky. The grass. Blue. Green. Cloud country. Expansive. Overwhelming. So blue. So green. Screams. Mom. Toddler. Arm. Extends. Mouth. Open. Bees. Fill.
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The police were always at our building, shaking down suspects, and belting out questions. Where did you get the drugs? Why did you leave the scene of the accident? He ...
Somewhere in the dark, I heard them hit. I heard it one, two, three, and the boy crying for them to stop, then just crying, then nothing at all. If ...
‘Yates types the names of the websites from the Visa bill and his browser is flooded with flesh. So many scenarios, inside, outside, by the pool, in a massage parlour, ...
‘He is lying on a tongue of a leviathan—sinking into the stomach lining of a whale. Swallowed whole. ‘ In the belly of a whale a man contemplates his own ...
A young boy in a tough neighborhood helps out an old lady, despite the dangers. Continue Reading Snoodles
On Friday night, Billy McDermiad crashed his car into a telephone pole, and left this world forever. Continue Reading Planting Billy
A gash appears in the wall. She is pushed through it, up to the heavy surface. More shots and then a shout. Continue Reading Blank Wall
You guys were at the pier that afternoon checking out the seagulls, and I guess maybe at a certain point you felt my look on you because you turned away ...
We are naked and in the water when Liz, who has the idea first, throws the ball in a high glittering arc over Sara’s head. Continue Reading ...
It shone through the window, then curtain, then onto the rug… Continue Reading Red Laser Beam
It would look at me and I’d wish it would lunge already, but it never did. It would look at me and I could hear it thinking, take your time ...
She responded by imbuing the Allegro ma non troppo with defiance, unusual for her, giving angry voice to the two opposing forces within the score and sidelong glances to Zhou ...
This is not what I imagined when I asked God for a brother. I had thought of a boy like my best friend’s brother, four years older, who is gallant ...
